fall headlong
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Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
The moment would come when she must fall headlong.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Otherwise it was dark, pitch dark, in the narrow, crooked streets, and down by the wharves, where one might fall headlong into the sea if tipsy, or a stranger.
From Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland
Your steed, though rough-shod, cannot keep His footing on the treacherous rime And may fall headlong any time.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
I had thought he would fall headlong down the ladder, so distractedly did he behave himself, and called upon him sharply to tell me wherein lay this danger to Idonia he affected to fear.
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur F. Wallis
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